From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
Subject: RE: structural markup
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 13:00:00 PDT
Message-ID: <31F68118@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM>
Thomas Breuel writes in <199607240845.BAA13166@shellx.best.com> ('>>' is
me):
>> Eventually, HTML will give way to full SGML, and use of vi(1) and
>> other non-GUI editors (for non-casual editing) will give way to
>> GUI, HTML/SGML-aware editors that will enable easier use of
>> structural markup.
>
>The fact remains that requiring more structural markup
>results in higher costs for input and conversion, relative to
>less structural markup. Tools only affect the baseline.
>
>There is no reason to believe that GUI tools will make
>structural input for math so easy that the cost becomes
>negligible; in fact, based on my experience with GUI and
>non-GUI tools for math input, if anything, the opposite
>is true.
That is why I said "easier", not "easy". The net gain (especially from
getting math right to begin with, instead of the occasional suffering we all
have from the non-structural nature of current HTML) is worth it. Besides,
if there is an advantage to non-GUI input, a GUI tool should provide both.
I still keep a Korn shell on _my_ Windows NT desktop (thank you, MKS!)...
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Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN